DESIGN OF AN INDOOR SPORT HALL FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED AND MAXIMUM UTILIZATION

DESIGN OF AN INDOOR SPORT HALL FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED AND MAXIMUM UTILIZATION, A RESEARCH PROJECT TOPIC ON URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND

Indoor sports hall are universally useful spaces designed to accommodate a variety sports. Some of these can take in a suitable games hall, and consequently it will be important to settle on upon the range of games and levels before deciding the floor required area. (Peter Ackroyd 1995). The indoor game hall can be as a solitary ‘stand-alone’ structure with smallest bolster space or as a segment inside a larger structure. This sport building began to spring up during the end of the twentieth century. Earlier examples being basic ‘games outbuildings ‘on school places that gave fundamental climate projection to open spaces playing ground. Others were a section of larger public sport building that were built in the 1970’s. Different developmental project and sport programmer in the 1980’s saw the advancement of standard reduced and design that were economical (Sports hall design and layout February 2012). Indoor sport hall activity can be competitive, sport or for exercise purposes. Most sporting hall are designed in such a way that both national and international sport competition as well as county and club completion can take place in them. In this part the data given about every sport activity will by and large be limited to the required general sizes at the different perceived levels. Some of the sport building are large structure bounded by both dry and wet sport. It is feasible to have a dry or wet or sport complex. (Geraint John 1995). Such that variety of games can be hosted in a multipurpose indoor sporting hall, each of this games have individual court with the appropriate colour marking. However, the utilization of lines minimizes the utilization of space and tend to bring harmony between the different sporting activities.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Kaduna the Kaduna state capital boasts of facilitating numerous sport events be it at local, nationwide, and sometimes worldwide. As a result of this the facilities available which for to host this games are now inadequate while some of them are overstretched. To this end, there is a requirement for construction of new indoor sport hall. According to the World Bank and World Health Organization (W.H.O) persons with physical impairment make up 15% of the world populace with the greater part of them in the third world nations. (World Report on Disability, World Health Organization, 2011). Physical impairment is increasingly being acknowledged as a human rights issue. Without a doubt, individual that make up the disability movement observe disability human rights as the last liberation struggle. The new UN Convention on the privileges of persons with disability was received in January 2007, and numerous nations have passed their own domestic disability law. Probably the comprehensive disability legislation exists in third world nation. On the other hand, making an interpretation of rights on paper into genuine enhancements for the lives of disable people is to a great extent harder.

DESIGN OF AN INDOOR SPORT HALL FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED AND MAXIMUM UTILIZATION, A RESEARCH PROJECT TOPIC ON URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING